Next Wednesday, February 6 at 6 p.m., Dissent co-editor Michael Walzer and New York Review of Books contributor Yasmine El Rashidi will speak about the state of the Arab Spring. The discussion will take place in the Elebash Recital Hall …
An Unlikely Martyr I’m not going to waste my life fighting over a little issue like copyright. Health care, financial reform—those are the issues that I work on. Not something obscure like copyright law. This was Aaron Swartz’s initial reaction, …
In the most recent issue of Dissent, Carole Joffe looks at the legacy of Roe v. Wade. Read her piece, as well as comments by Linda Gordon, Zakiya Luna, and Ruth Rosen.
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In the last month, two Dissent editors have hosted installments of After Words, a show broadcast on C-SPAN’s Book TV. Co-editor Michael Kazin interviewed historian Peter Kuznick and director Oliver Stone about the companion book to their recent Showtime series, …
Dissent contributors on Michigan’s right-to-work law: Colin Gordon looks at the faulty economics, Richard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit tell the ugly racial history of the idea, and Michael Kazin reminds us why people would miss unions if they vanished.
Dissent contributors reflect on the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. Read posts by Saul Cornell, Bryce Covert, and Elliott J. Gorn.
In the Summer 2012 issue of Dissent, Hazem Kandil presented his analysis of Egypt’s recent revolution. This Wednesday he will be in New York to discuss his new book, Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen, now out from Verso. Wednesday, November 28 at …
This Saturday evening, Dissent‘s Sarah Leonard will speak with Laurie Penny about her new book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism. Penny is a journalist, feminist, and political activist from London whose blog, “Penny Red,” was shortlisted for the Orwell …
This Saturday, November 17, Dissent is hosting an open forum on the U.S. elections. Historians Michael Kazin, David Greenberg, and Kim Phillips-Fein will talk about current trends in American politics—how we got here, and where we’re headed. Michael Kazin is …
Election responses from Tim Barker and Sarah Leonard, David Bromwich, Mark Engler, Max Fraser, Ryan Rafaty, Rafia Zakaria, Kevin Mattson, Gary Gerstle, and Benjamin Ross.
Welcome to Dissent‘s new website! On it, you’ll find our fall issue, with a special section on higher education. Right now, non-subscribers can read Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal’s “From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public …
His commentary was sharp, as much of Dissent is, but I always imagined him writing with a smile on his face, while many of our other writers write with grim determination.
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Thai Jones, clearly discomforted by what my book is—essentially an ideological genealogy of a particular strain of revolutionary anarchism that flared into popularity in the 1880s and died in America with the explosion of the Haymarket bomb—employs the age-old dodge …
